First hot seat experience

It all started with George asking me if I had an easy schedule for the next couple of weeks. Since I always am jobless, I gave the obvious answer...and then came the info, I was supposed to be helping him with a few interviews.

Initially I was aprehensive about the entire thing. I knew that I would be sitting one fine day for the interview without any preparation. In that sense, its going to be a test for me as well as for the person sitting in front of me. And I was pretty sure that there will be no preparation because time has got this sense of unaccountability with me like money with dishonest beurocrats. And that means that I would be doing stuffs on an Ad-Hoc basis. Even though I try not to do things on such a basis, finally all get done this way only. Maybe I was destined to do things this way all the time. But I do make it a point to keep in mind that I will never ever do it this way again. It goes easy with my concience.

So back to the main point, it started at 8 in the evening. This guy was from the same college that i had come from and had done a few things. The initial apprehension lost its way sometime in the middle of the interview and before I knew, it was done.

Then I realized that it was not a big deal atall. But sometimes i really do feel for the people who get rejected along the way too just because of the interviewer's perception (i would say that even the interviewee has got something to do with it...but then...)

Only two imp points to keep in mind:
1) Interview is the art of making people talk about the things that they are comfy with and trying to get people talk about things that they are not comfy with.
2) Remember that these people will be working with you, so choose people who will fit in the company's environment, which will reduce a lot of heartburn all along in the future.

Other than that, have fun and njoi. :)

Interesting article

Pretty interesting article considering the fact that I have been on both sides of the Q's. :)
http://bhuvans.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/50-common-interview-qa/

Really jobless

Humans can never do anything but complain. If there is lots of work, then people complain. If there is no work, then they complain. In short, I have never seen a person who is satisfied in life. I used to be that guy, but then I guess, I have started gelling into the mainstream homo sapien way of thinking.

Till the last week, the complain was regarding too much work. And, now to think of it, I was not even in a position to complain because it was my mouth that was responsible for the amount of work that I was doing. (not to mention the couple of other people who had to slog their ass off) There were times when I used to get into the vacation mode but it was all in mind, wishful thinking, hoping against hope, daydreaming off to some place where I was dozing off in a sunny beach, till someone comes in and shakes me back to the real world.

It seems that firefighting was the order of the day (the week rather). One problem after the other, and we getting finger pointed without any blame of ours. And then tempers flare and then the long clarification emails that were sent out with lots of photos and all (just to keep the readers interested. Graphic ideas are more attractive than things put in plain words) So that's where the major time was getting sucked in. Along with that, ofcourse, ther would be the issue of fixing the issue which causes such heartburn on both the camps.

So that was the scenario till the last week.

Now for the last week, all I have been doing is to surf the net all the time, chatting, and if i get really bored of all these things, search for work...seems like the good old I-flex days have come back. And then the frequent coffee breaks.

You will see that I have become really active in Orkut, there will be lots of blogs and things like those.. the latest project that I have in mind is that I will send an email to all my old friends with whom I have lost touch. That should take a bit of time.

And then this week will get over and I'll be back to Bangalore...where the actual fun will start again :) and life will come back in a full circle.

Back for good?

I had entirely fogotten about this blogspot of mine till now, when I, on a ego searching spree, came across my own creation :) lying in tatters.
So i thought that it would make sense to add a few posts so that...hmm, now y should i post something.
Y do people post things on the net that can be viewed by all and which reflects his/her innermost feelings?
Questions, lot of it but no answers. Guess that is in the realm of the psychologists to research on.
Now where were we? oke, a post so that our blog does not look like a sofa set which was brought in 1950's and even though it has never been used, it looks out of sorts.
Talk about sidhuisms.. :)